Enzymes of ammonia assimilation in hyphae and vesicles of Frankia sp. strain CpI1.
AUTOR(ES)
Schultz, N A
RESUMO
Frankia spp. are filamentous actinomycetes that fix N2 in culture and in actinorhizal root nodules. In combined nitrogen-depleted aerobic environments, nitrogenase is restricted to thick-walled spherical structures, Frankia vesicles, that are formed on short stalks along the vegetative hyphae. The activities of the NH4(+)-assimilating enzymes (glutamine synthetase [GS], glutamate synthase, glutamate dehydrogenase, and alanine dehydrogenase) were determined in cells grown on NH4+ and N2 and in vesicles and hyphae from N2-fixing cultures separated on sucrose gradients. The two frankial GSs, GSI and GSII, were present in vesicles at levels similar to those detected in vegetative hyphae from N2-fixing cultures as shown by enzyme assay and two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Glutamate synthase, glutamate dehydrogenase, and alanine dehydrogenase activities were restricted to the vegetative hyphae. Vesicles apparently lack a complete pathway for assimilating ammonia beyond the glutamine stage.
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